Jan Shipps, a
historian of Mormonism, is professor emeritus of history and religious
studies at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.

Ariela Keysar, a demographer, is associate director of the
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and
associate research professor in public policy and law at Trinity
College. She was the study director of the American Religious Identity
Survey 2001 and is co-author of Religion in a Free Market.

Barry A. Kosmin, a sociologist, is founding director of the
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and
research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College. He was
principal investigator of the CUNY National Survey of Religious
Identification 1990 and the American Religious Identification Survey
2001.

Frank Pasquale, a cultural anthropologist, is a research
associate of ISSSC engaged in the study of the nonreligious population
of the United States. He has written and lectured widely on humanism,
morality and ethics, and church-state relations and resides in Portland,
Oregon.

William A. Stahl is professor of sociology at Luther College,
University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is author of God and
the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology and co-author of
Webs of Reality: Social Perspectives on Science and Religion.

David Voas, a social statistician, is the Simon Research
Fellow at the Cathy Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research,
University of Manchester, England. He specializes in religious change in
modern societies.

Nathalie Caron, a historian of the 18th century, is maître
de conférence (associate professor) in American civilization in the
department of English and American studies at the Universite de Paris
10-Nanterre. She is author of Thomas Paine contre l’imposture des
pretres (Thomas Paine against the Imposition of the Priests).

Lars Dencik is professor of social psychology at Roskilde
University, Denmark, and director of the social and cultural psychology
program at the Danish Graduate School of Psychology.

Asghar Ali Engineer, a civil engineer, holds
honorary doctorates from several Indian universities. He is chairman of
the Centre for the Study of Secularism in Society, editor of the
Indian Journal of Secularism, and director of the Institute of
Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India.

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is professor of psychology at the
University of Haifa, Israel. His many books include The Psychology of
Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience and Despair and
Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel.